Remember the Ehime Maru - MORE Bushie-caused death

[Gringo]

ON FEBRUARY 9, 2001, THE 'USS GREENEVILLE' NUCLEAR ATTACK SUBMARINE COLLIDED WITH THE JAPANESE TRAINING SHIP 'EHIME MARU' OFF THE HAWAIIAN ISLAND OF OAHU.

NINE PERSONS ABOARD THE 'EHIME MARU' ARE MISSING AND PRESUMED DEAD.

http://www.the-catbird-seat.net/Greeneville.htm

excerpt:

>>>The Navy reports that after a "lengthy non-public investigation" the names of the 16 civilian VIPs aboard the USS Greeneville when it destroyed the Ehime Maru are finally being released.

Thanks to the work of several amateur Net sleuths, including the worthy "Delta Dart" of Salon's Table Talk message boards, a picture is beginning to emerge of these 16 VIPs.

Here's their names and their known political and financial affiliations:

#1: JAY BREHMER, OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS

#2: CAROL BREHMER, OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS

The Brehmers may not seem at first to have any oil, Texas or GOP connections -- but interestingly, we find that a Public Records: Yahoo People Search yields the following information:

Jay and Carol Brehmer...Spring, TX

Spring, Texas is a wealthy northern suburb of Houston, not far from the very tony suburb of The Woodlands (more on that later).

Also, Jay Brehmer is a Company Director of Aquila Energy as of October 2000.

Remember how Usurper Boy is a big "energy deregulation" fan? Remember the fact that Enron, the nation's biggest unregulated-energy player (and one of the entities raking in the biggest profits from the deregulation shell-game scam in California) is also George W. Bush's biggest lifetime political campaign contributor?

#3: JACK CLARY, STOW, MA

#4: PAT CLARY, STOW, MA

A 'Jack Clary' makes his living as a relatively famous sports journalist. He has written books on baseball and football, and in 1997 wrote Navy Football Gridiron Legends & Fighting Heroes, which was published by the Naval Institute Press. My guess is that this is the same fella.

Now, Bush owned the Texas Rangers as part of a scheme put together by his old buddy Richard Rainwater, part of which involved abusing the eminent-domain laws to force dozens of Arlington-area residents to sell their land and homes to Rainwater's outfit for the creation of The Ballpark at Arlington. Since a good portion of this properly never wound up as part of The Ballpark, Rainwater made a tidy sum selling the excess land for a good deal than he paid for it. But Clary and his wife Pat, so far as I can see, are among the few civilians on the USS Greeneville who weren't Texans, oil/energy people and/or a donors to George W. Bush and/or the Republican Party.

#5: HELEN CULLEN, HOUSTON, TEXAS

The Cullen Family owns Quintana Petroleum, Houston, TX. According to http://www.opensecrets.org, they are big backers of both GW Bush and the GOP .

#6: JOHN M. HALL, SEALY, TEXAS

#7: LEIGH ANNE SCHNELL HALL, SEALY, TEXAS
Note also that, as I mentioned in my last APJ piece, Todd Thoman and John Hall (who was the guy at the buoyancy levers when the sub did its disastrous emergency surface drill) are both employed by Fossil Bay, an oil company based in Dallas, Texas. They were on the sub because of the contributions they made to the USS Missouri restoration foundation ... whose 'honorary chair' just happens to be George Herbert Walker Bush.

#8: MIKE MITCHELL, IRVING, TEXAS

For the 1999 annual meeting of the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA), one of the speakers listed for a talk called (ironically enough) "Show Me the Money!" is Mike Mitchell, Managing Director of EnCap Energy Advisors, Dallas.

#9: MICKEY NOLAN, HONOLULU, HI

#10: SUSAN NOLAN, HONOLULU, HI

Mickey Nolan is a local Honolulu golf tournament promoter. He probably put together a golfing event for these GOP money people.

#11: ANTHONY SCHNUR, THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS

#12: SUSAN SCHNUR, THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS

Schnur has an email address at utilicorp.com -- and Aquila Energy is a UtiliCorp United company, as noted earlier. Aquila is one of the biggest wholesalers of energy in the US, and stands to make Enron-sized profits should the GOP's deregulation scam overcome the California catastrophe.

#13: TODD THOMAN, HOUSTON, TEXAS

#14: DEANDRA THOMAN, HOUSTON, TEXAS

Todd Thoman was Vice President of Corporate Communications, Fossil Bay Resources Ltd., working out of their Houston office until a couple weeks ago, according to a receptionist reached by one of APJ's New York staffers.

#15: KEN WYATT, GOLDEN, COLORADO

#16: CATHERINE GRAHAM WYATT, GOLDEN, COLORADO

Golden is where Adolph Coors has set up shop. As befits its major employer, it's a very rich, very conservative Denver suburb.

Ken Wyatt works for Utilicorp. Oil and Gas Investor.com lists numbers in both Denver and Houston for Wyatt, along with an email address at Utilicorp.

There you have it: the 16 civilian VIPs that rode -- and in some cases drove -- the USS Greeneville on its date with destiny. Many of these same VIPs are driving the US' energy policy, and stand to profit greatly on blackouts and misery just as Enron is profiting in the deregged parts of California.<<<


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[SpiralHawk]

1. Ay yi yi yi Carumba

The tentacles of the Octopus are everywhere (just like Chicken Man).

[Gringo]

2. For the record, most of the dead were high school kids on a field trip.

And I reiterate, :puke:

[SoCalDem]

3. Flash from the past.. Here's a thread from last year..:lots of info

http://www.democraticunderground.com/cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=20952&forum=DCForumID60&archive=

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